Brooklyn's Gerardo Valjean
by Gerard Sarnat

BROOKLYN’S GERARDO VALJEAN

by Gerard Sarnat

-- all thanks to Isak

Mousy man

back from head

peeked out hovely

house

1st post COVID

trip took to only open

local bodega where top

security

guard stares, stops,

accuses me being crook

stole single loaf of pain.

Stunned

we show you bag

containing our receipt --

they nada let us leave sans

guillotine.